Those Tricky Gradual Psalms
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
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    Would anyone happen to know, from experience or second-hand, whether the Gradual Psalms (whether prior to Matins or on their own) were ever chanted, and if so, in which mode? Or recto tono? (I'm putting together a booklet for my religious community.)
  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
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    I believe recto tono.
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  • JonathanKKJonathanKK
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    Stimson,
    I have typeset these, and I can send you what I've got, if you are interested.
    Lacking any indications that I could find, I went for the tonus "in directum", and other appropriate tones taken from the Antiphonale Romanum (Kyrie's, versicles, and prayers).

    ClemensRomanus: I'd be interested to know why you said recto tono. (And if you've found a rubric somewhere, where?)
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  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
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    Thank you, Jonathan. Yes.
  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
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    Ah my mistake. It seems that according to the Toni communes section of the Antiphonal the correct would be the Tonus in directum.
    Still, I have a vague recollection of a Priest friend mentioning recto tono, though my memory escapes.
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